Describes the technical relationships among certain sets of protocols that are included in MCPP. This document is intended to be used together with the overview and reference documents, which are companion documents to the protocol specifications.

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Contains a partial list of the objects that exist in the Active Directory schema (attributes beginning with A - L).

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Contains a partial list of the objects that exist in the Active Directory schema (attributes beginning with M).

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Contains a partial list of the objects that exist in the Active Directory schema (attributes beginning with N - Z).

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Contains a list of the objects that exist in the Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services schema.

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Contains a partial list of objects that exist in the Active Directory schema.

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Specifies the Remote Data Services (RDS) Transport Protocol, a Microsoft proprietary protocol and an HTTP request/response protocol, that facilitates remote method definition and invocation, method definitions for executing database commands and for synchronizing database results, and that defines a record format for encoding of database results.

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Describes the state model for Active Directory.

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Supports a more generalized authentication exchange than the Internet Key Exchange Protocol and provides the optimizations in key exchange and policy discoverability.

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Specifies Authentication Protocol Domain Support, which is the communication process between a server and a domain controller that uses Netlogon interfaces to complete an authentication sequence.

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Specifies the ASP.NET State Server Protocol, which is a contract for transmitting session state data between a client and a state server.

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Specifies how to encrypt secret values (such as cryptographic keys), so they can be backed up to storage that is not specially protected, and how to decrypt such values in the event recovery is necessary.

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Provides authentication for computers in an Active Directory domain in support of the BITS Peer-Caching Content Retrieval Protocol ([MS-BPCR]).

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One of the family of protocols that implements a distributed URL cache known as "BITS peer-caching". Other protocols in the family are used to discover potential peers and to authenticate them.

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Used to locate hosts in a domain that supports the URL-caching protocol implemented by BITS.

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Specification of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) Browser Protocol.

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Used by the master browser server to query configuration information for the domains from the domain master browser server. The protocol operation is stateless.

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Designed for businesses to manage all error reporting information within the organization.

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Uses Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) version 2 (EAP-MSCHAPv2) as an authentication method within the EAP-MSCHAPv2 framework.

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Enables the remote management of a OleTx Transaction Manager and its extensions: MSDTC Connection Manager: OleTx Transaction Internet Extension ([MS-DTCM]), the Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP) Extensions ([MS-TIPP]), and MSDTC Connection Manager: OleTx XA Protocol Extension ([MC-DTCXA]).

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Specifies the MSDTC Connection Manager Protocol: Connection Multiplexing Protocol [MS-CMP].

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Specifies the MSDTC Connection Manager: OleTx Transports Protocol.

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Microsoft proprietary RPC-based protocol that is used for remotely managing a cluster.

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Describes the Component Object Model Plus (COM+) Protocol, which consists of a Microsoft proprietary DCOM interface (and DCOM protocol extensions) that is used for adding transactions, implementing synchronization, managing multiple object class configurations, enforcing security, and providing additional functionality and attributes to DCOM-based distributed object applications.

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Allows clients to manage the configuration of software components, and to control running instances of these components.

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A Microsoft proprietary protocol that exposes DCOM interfaces for storing and managing configuration data for publishers of events and their respective subscribers on remote computers. This protocol also specifies how to get specific information about a publisher and its subscribers.

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Specifies the Component Object Model Plus (COM+) Tracker Service Protocol, which allows clients to monitor running instances of components.

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Structure specification for "Phonebook File" (store Point of Presence (POP) location information, logically grouped by geographical Region) and the "Region File" (lists regions).

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Specifies the syntax and interpretation of certificate templates, which form the basis of certificate management for the Certificate Templates Protocol Specification.

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Specifies the Certificate Services Remote Administration Protocol, which consists of a set of Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interfaces that allow administrative tools to configure the state and policy of a certification authority (CA) on a server.

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Specifies the Credential Security Support Provider (CredSSP) Protocol, which enables an application to securely delegate a user's credentials from a client to a target server.

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Remotely configures cluster nodes, cleans up cluster nodes, and validates that hardware and software settings are compatible with Failover Clustering.

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Defines a standard mechanism that may be used by a client to acquire a Security Token from a Security Token service (STS).

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Describes the Distributed Component Object Model Protocol (DCOM) that exposes application objects via remote procedure calls (RPCs) and consists of a set of extensions layered on the Microsoft Remote Procedure Call Extensions.

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Allows file system clients to resolve names from a namespace distributed across many servers and geographies into local names on specific file servers.

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Provides a remote procedure call (RPC) interface for administering DFS configurations. The client is an application that issues method calls on the RPC interface to administer DFS. The server is a DFS service that implements support for this RPC interface for administering DFS.

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Describes the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which specifies the Microsoft specific vendor-class options included in Microsoft's implementation of DHCP.

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Defines RPC interfaces that provide methods for remotely accessing and administering the DHCP server. This protocol is a client/server protocol based on RPC that is used in the configuration, management and monitoring of a DHCP server.

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Describes the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), which is designed to reduce the administrative burden and complexity of configuring hosts on a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)-based network, such as a private intranet, and which is one enforcement method supported by Network Access Protection (NAP).

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Works with the Distributed Link Tracking (DLT) Workstation Protocol to discover the new location of a file that has moved. DLT can determine whether the file has moved on a mass-storage device, within a computer, or between computers in a network. The DLT Central Manager Protocol keeps track of file and volume moves and other relevant information from participating computers, so it can provide this information in response to workstation queries.

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Works with the Distributed Link Tracking (DLT) Central Manager Protocol to discover the new location of a file that has moved. DLT can determine whether the file has moved on a mass-storage device, within a computer, or between computers in a network. The DLT Workstation Protocol helps a computer locate files that have been moved within a computer or between computers in a computer network.

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Managing storage objects on a machine.

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Defines RPC interfaces that provide methods for remotely accessing and administering a DNS server. It is a client/server protocol based on RPC that is used in the configuration, management and monitoring of a DNS server.

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Intended for peer-to-peer network video gaming and used by the DXDiag application, which is part of the Windows operating system.

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Specifies the variations in the Windows implementation of the Digest Authentication protocol from the standard, as specified in [RFC2617].

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Provides secure distribution, promotion, and sale of digital media content.

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Specifies an RPC protocol for replication and management of data in Active Directory.

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Specifies extensions that are used to directory services in SOAP sessions.

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Exposes an remote procedure call (RPC) interface that a client can call to obtain domain-related computer state and configuration information.

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This protocol provides concrete mechanisms for associating an Atomic Transaction and an LU type 6.2 Logical Unit of Work.

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Extends the OleTx protocol (see [MS-DTCO]) to enable its interoperation with the open-standard Transaction Internet Protocol (TIP)

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Provides concrete mechanisms for beginning, propagating, and completing atomic transactions. It also provides mechanisms for coordinating agreement on a single atomic outcome for each transaction, and for reliably distributing that outcome to all participants in the transaction.

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Specifies encoding extended error information. This specification assumes that the reader has familiarity with the concepts and the requirements that are detailed in [MS-RPCE] and [C706].

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Performs maintenance and management operations on encrypted data that is stored remotely and accessed over a network.

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An Enhanced Metafile Structure (EMF) is a collection of records that can store an image in an application-independent format. The stored image can be recreated by processing the records.

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Enhanced Metafile Format Plus Extensions define a device-independent structure that encapsulates graphics commands and objects for storage or for sending to devices such as displays and printers, which support the drawing of images, graphics, and text.

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An EMF spool file is a collection of records that contain information to print a document outside the control of original application, either on the same computer, or on another computer.

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Exposes remote procedure call (RPC) methods for reading events in both live and backup event logs on remote computers and specifies how to get general information about a log.

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Exposes Remote Procedure Call (RPC) methods for reading events in both live and backup event logs on remote computers and specifies how to get general information about a log. This protocol addresses Windows Vista.

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Describes the protocol for managing security policies on remote computers.

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Defines the Microsoft proprietary Fax Server and Client Remote Protocol, which is a remote procedure call (RPC)-based, client-server protocol, that is used to send faxes and to manage the fax server and its queues.

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Specifies a set of server extensions that can be used to augment a basic HTTP server.

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Set of a Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) interfaces for managing the configuration of directory quotas, file screens, and storage report jobs on a machine.

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Defines the network format of native Windows structures that may be used within other protocols.

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Specifies the Deployed Printer Connections Extension to the Group Policy Protocol.

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Describes the Group Policy Extension for Encrypting File System, which uses the Microsoft proprietary protocol, Group Policy Protocol, to allow remote administrative configuration of the Encrypting File System.

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Folder Redirection is a Group Policy extension that provides a mechanism to relocate specific user folders to server disk volumes. File system access requests to a user's folders are automatically redirected to a newly created folder for each user.

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The Internet Explorer Maintenance Extension enables administrators to apply custom settings to the Internet Explorer configuration on one or more computers to enforce Internet-related security standards and provide a common browser interface within the organization.

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This document specifies the IPSec policy component's extension to the Group Policy protocol [MS-GPOL]. The transmitted configuration data enables centralized (common) configuration of the IPsec component on multiple client systems in order to provide basic traffic filtering, data integrity, and optionally, data encryption for TCP/IP traffic.

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Communicates administrator-defined policies between a client and a domain controller (DC).

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Extension to Group Policy: Core Protocol [MS-GPOL] that provides a mechanism to manage and deploy policy preferences.

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The Registry Extension Encoding Protocol extension to the Group Policy Protocol provides a mechanism for an administrator to control any behavior on a client that depends on registry-based settings.

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Specifies an extension to the Group Policy Protocol that enables security policies to be distributed to multiple client systems, so these systems can enact the policies in accordance with the intentions of the administrator.

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Specifies an extension to the Group Policy Protocol that provides a mechanism for an administrator to instruct an arbitrarily large group of clients to execute administrator-specified code at computer startup, computer shutdown, user log on, and user log off.

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Enables an administrator to install and remove software applications at client computers.

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Specifies an extension to the Group Policy Protocol that specifies the behaviors of the Wireless/Wired Group Policy administrative-side and client-side plug-in extensions.

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Generic Security Service Algorithm for Secret Key Transaction Authentication for DNS (GSS-TSIG) identifies one possible extension to TSIG based on the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API).

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Describes Microsoft's extensions for H.323 protocol.

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Specifies extensions that are used to transmit and receive H.261 or H.263 video streams in a two-party peer-to-peer call.

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Allows a network endpoint to obtain digital certificates.

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This protocol is a subset of the Windows Client Certificate Enrollment Protocol, as specified in [MS-WCCE].

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A client-to-server protocol that enables remote control of Internet services as a single unit.

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Specifies extensions to the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol, as specified in [RFC2409].

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Specifies a set of RPC interfaces that allow clients to install cryptographic keys and their associated X.509 certificates on a remote server.

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Defines interfaces that provide Unicode-compliant methods for remotely accessing and administering the IIS metabase associated with an application that manages IIS configuration, such as the IIS snap-in for Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

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Allows a Microsoft virtual machine to determine ownership of remote objects.

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Clarifies the implementation details of [IROBEX] where necessary and clarifies which portions of [IROBEX] are not implemented.

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A remote procedure call (RPC)-based client/server protocol that is used for managing Internet protocol servers such as those hosted by Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

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Specifies the Microsoft implementation of the Kerberos Protocol, as specified in [RFC4120], by specifying any Windows behaviors that differ from the Kerberos Protocol, in addition to Windows extensions for interactive logon and the inclusion of authorization information expressed as group memberships and related information.

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Specifies the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) Protocol, which an application or higher-layer protocol can use to facilitate discovery of link-layer topology and diagnose various problems associated with a network's signal strength and bandwidth.

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Specifies a Microsoft-defined protocol for managing sundry machine and domain security policies.

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Specifies the Local Security Authority (Translation Methods) Remote Protocol, which is implemented in Windows products to translate identifiers for security principal between human-readable and machine-readable forms.

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Describes the Remote Mailslot Protocol, which is a Microsoft proprietary protocol and is a simple, unreliable, and unidirectional interprocess communications (IPC) protocol between a client and server.

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Allows a client to communicate with a server hosting an indexing service to issue queries.

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Specifies the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) Protocol specification version 1.0. MMS streams multimedia from Windows Media Services to Windows Media Player, or to another instance of Windows Media Services. MMS uses TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol).

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Implements a proprietary method of application sharing over the T.120 Multipoint Communication Service (MCS) layer, using the S20 MCS Channel.

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Used by Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) to communicate across both connected networks and heterogeneous networks.

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A queued protocol that uses Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) as its transport infrastructure to send notifications wrapped within Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ) messages.

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Specifies the Message Queuing (MSMQ): Directory Service Protocol, a remote procedure call (RPC)–based protocol that is used by Message Queuing (MSMQ) clients and Message Queuing servers to remotely access and maintain MSMQ directory objects in the MSMQ: Directory Service Protocol.

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Describes how the Message Queuing (MSMQ) protocols fit together.

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Enables communication between message queuing client applications and an MSMQ Queue Manager.

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Contains common definitions and data structures that are used in various protocols in the set of Microsoft Message Queuing protocols.

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Used for management operations on the MSMQ server, including monitoring the MSMQ installation and the queues.

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Defines a mechanism for reliably transferring messages between two message queues located on two different hosts.

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RPC-based protocol used by the queue manager and runtime library to read and purge messages from a remote queue.

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An RPC-based protocol that is used by Message Queuing (also known as MSMQ) clients to read or reject a message from a queue, move a message between queues, and purge all messages from a queue.